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- Couple ordered to seem earlier than court docket on September 2.
- Both accused submitted their written response to NAB.
- Imran, Bushra arrested in new reference since July 13.
An accountability court docket on Monday despatched Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and his spouse, Bushra Bibi, to jail on a 15-day judicial remand in a brand new Toshakhana reference.
The listening to, held on the Adiala jail in Rawalpindi, was carried out by Accountability Court Judge Nasir Javed Rana.
The decide has additionally ordered to produce each Imran and his spouse earlier than the court docket on September 2. The couple made their look as we speak after the completion of their 10-day bodily remand.
The bodily remand was authorised by the court docket on August 8.
During the listening to of the case, the accused submitted a written reply within the court docket in response to the questionnaire by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
The former prime minister and the ex-first girl had been represented by their legal professionals Zaheer Abbas Chaudhary and Salman Safdar. NAB Deputy Director Mohsen Haroon and Special Prosecutor Sardar Muzaffar Abbasi additionally appeared on the court docket to current their arguments.
The earlier listening to of the brand new reference was held on August 8.
The new Toshakhana reference in opposition to the couple got here to the fore after NAB arrested them hours after a district and periods court docket in Islamabad acquitted Khan and Bushra within the iddat case — also referred to as the un-Islamic nikah case — which was the final hurdle within the couple’s launch from jail.
A workforce of the anti-corruption watchdog headed by Deputy Director Mohsin Haroon arrested the couple within the Adiala Jail within the new reference associated to alleged “misuse of energy for buying Toshakhana items,” the sources added.
The NAB workforce rearrested Bushra Bibi after she was launched from Adiala Jail’s Gate No. 3 to fulfil her authorized obligations, the sources stated including the previous first girl will stay incarcerated on the Rawalpindi jail.
A NAB official had confirmed to The News in January that the highest graft physique was engaged on one other reference in opposition to the cricketer-cum-politician which can be associated to the Toshakhana items retained by him after cost of a paltry quantity.
Meanwhile, an accountability court docket’s decide had earlier refused to increase Khan’s bodily remand within the case beneath query when the NAB filed a Toshakhana reference in December 2023.
Following their arrest within the new Toshakhana case, each Imran and Bushra had moved the Islamabad High Court (IHC), stating that they been “illegally” remanded into NAB’s custody and that their arrest had affected the elemental rights of “liberty and pre-arrest”.
The authorized woes of the deposed prime minister and his partner refused to die down following the couple’s arrest within the new reference associated to state items.
The IHC, on August 16, directed NAB’s investigating officer to go to Adiala jail, searching for the couple’s response to its questionnaire and adjourned the listening to until August 21.
NAB ought to make it clear they need to defend the arrest of PTI founder, IHC’s Justice Miangul Hassan stated.
